Cruise price was attractive, probably in collaboration with one of the larger travel agency in Hong Kong. However, the quality of the cruise was poor.
Food: not much selection even the salad section, dressing unlike what you normally ...
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It was Chinese New Year holiday and we wanted to go somewhere without the hassle of flying. This cruise had a good itinerary where we cruised to Ishigaki and Okinawa.
Food: Never have high expectation of food on the cruise and I would ...
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This is the first time travel in a cruise, I really enjoy these days! When I get on the cruise, every staffs are very nice with smile and direct us to the cabin clearly. I went there with my boyfriend. Although the cabin is not very big, ...
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I have a wonderful trip with my wife and kids during Chinese New Year this year. Our family went on Costa Victoria’s New Year Cruise which had many festive events planned out. Due to unforeseen circumstances that happened at home, my ...
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Thank you Costa Victoria for organizing the best cruise trip for me and my family over Chinese New Year! To all the reviews here, I was quite shocked to read about the negatives comments because I feel that the Costa Victoria crew are the ...
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I have tried to give a honest and balanced review with hopefully some helpful tips,my wife and I have cruised a number of times on different lines but this is our first with Costa, sorry if I go on a bit.
Flight- We flew with Emirates ...
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The cabin was roomy and no problems. The cabin steward Lu was fantastic and nothing was too much trouble for her.
The excursion were quite pricey and a lot of wasted time that could have been utilised better. Sanya Island off China was a ...
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Suffocating, Noise and Air Pollution, Poor Organization, Chaotic, Cheap, Demeaning, Refugee Feel, Low Quality of Food and Services -- these are words that associated with memory of our recent cruise to Halong Bay and Sanya with Costa ...
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It seems like some people may be confusing Nov cruise with Oct cruise. Our cruise was from 11/6-11/21--no collision or atrocious weather. The weather was quite nice. Contrary to some negative reviews, we loved the Southeast Asian ...
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I do not have much more to add to the reviews of this lamentable effort of a cruise.
Everything that has been said is doubly true.
Costa should never have allowed this cruise to go ahead after it's collision and a number of staff ...
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Costa Classica Far East Cruise 5/11/2010
I have just returned from a Far East cruise on the Costa Classica, taking in HongKong Manila, Kota Kinabalu, Brunei Singapore Ho chi Minh city Da nang & Sanya.
The review I am about ...
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I'll begin by getting the bad stuff out the way. I cruised with NCL last year who definately have the 'wow factor' and in some ways I guess I was expecting the same from Costa however, the fact is the Classica is older, a lot smaller, not ...
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This is the worst cruise ship we have ever been on. This so called CRUISE SHIP was nothing more than a CROSS CHANNEL FERRY. From the minute we boarded it was nothing short of a let down. We booked this holiday from the television. The ...
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me & my friend sailed on Classica in October for the Treasures Of the Far East. This was the one which was delayed due to the crash. Now i have been back for over a month i thought i would give a review.
Firstly, i thought Costa ...
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Can I just start by saying we are not complaining type of people and we have done 7 cruises with RCL and Princess and never found anything which was not top class. Regrettably that is not what we experienced with Costa cruises.The delay ...
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After 13 previous cruises with other lines, all of which we thoroughly enjoyed, this was our worst experience ever. The ship seems older than her alleged 19 years and we've been on better car ferries than this. The flowery descriptions in ...
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Wednesday 20th October
Husband rang to say he had received a phone call from Costa Crusies (cruise Line) to say the boat had crashed and we would be leaving Hong Kong 2 days late and losing Manila and Sanya from our cruise. They ...
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The Ship: Romantica is quite old and dated. It is clean enough on first glance, but quite tired looking. No effort at all has been made to beautify it anywhere. There are no green potplants on the decks outside the lifts. There are no ...
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An advert in a national newspaper prompted my wife and myself to book the 'treasures of the Far East' cruise. Having made the committment we decided to investigate further and stumbled upon this website where we read some fairly negative ...
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Calling at Hong Kong, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Vietnam and China
We cruised with Costa previously (Costa Mediterranea) and enjoyed it very much so when we decided on this cruise our obvious choice was Costa. The ship for ...
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I read the reviews in cruisecritic.com before going on this cruise. Had no choice of cancelling because it's my dad's 60th high school reunion and they decided to go with this cruise. I already told my parents not to expect too much ...
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Costa Classica: Treasures of the Far East cruise
We have just returned from this cruise (3 to 17 January 2010) and here are our observations.
We booked through Tropical Sky, who arranged flights non-stop Heathrow to Hong Kong. Other ...
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We have been on quite a few cruises over the past few years cruising with Airtours, Holland America, Royal Caribbean and P and O and they have all been enjoyable experiences apart from this one with Costa. This cruise was more expensive ...
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Following Doug's heart bypass surgery at the beginning of the year, we both needed a good holiday. We had never cruised before so decided on a cruise to Canada and Alaska in June 09. However, due to a lack of interest, that cruise was ...
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We booked a cruise on Costa Classica to celebrate my husbands 65th birthday and retirement, mainly because of the intinary which started and began in Hong Kong and visited Manila, Borneo, Brunei, Singapore, and Vietnam. We spent two very ...
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